Shutting down Yoville is a major mistake and I see he avoided the subject. Thousands of Yoville players are now steadfastly boycotting any and all Zynga games, yes that means thousands of lost customers Zynga will never get back. Find a way to keep Yoville going Mr. Mattrick, even if that means selling the game to another company, and then you will have a much better chance to succeed with your new job.

9:01 pm January 30, 2014

Debbie Hendricks wrote:

If Zynga doing so well and going to have 1.2 Billion on the balance sheet, then why is Zynga getting rid of a long standing game YoVille, that so many YoVillians have pleaded and begged to keep and save?? YoVille is a Zynga game that has been running for 6 years now, and has numerous players that are spending money like crazy on this game for 6 years now. There really isn't any other game out there like YoVille. It interactive with people from all over the world, you can decorate many homes and rooms, and have tons of fashion clothing to wear and so much more. People have visited daily friends from all over the world and became such good friends through the years in the game. Please, Don Mattrick, Zynga’s CEO, SAVE YOVILLE For Us ALL..

9:56 pm January 30, 2014

debbie wrote:

well i think if zanga has layed off most of their people then the games they do have left will suffer just like yoville did we couldnt get new things and things didnt work right and i think letting yoville go is a real big mistake and why when you got numerious players still playing why let it go? i will never be a zanga fan again i know they think its bussiness but so many people so passionate about a game is a reason to keep it if you ask me but seeings they dont think they need the game and the money it could bring then plz sale it back to big viking

10:27 pm January 30, 2014

yo player wrote:

we started yoville not ever thinking it would end I spent many days and hrs on yoville decorating started in 09 but really got into it in 2010 started spending my hard earned money on yocash lots of it over the yrs thousand dollars or more not counting once the vip came out back in 2013 i was in it for at least 6 or 7 months..we had alot issues with zygna not caring about the game, so i never played it so much as I went over to texas holdem started buying chips there plus gold few hundred spent there...but I would always go back to yo to try hand out gifts and recieve them but for few months still once in awhile i can recieve a few..but that beside the point..when i got off work one day went straight to yoville we got thing from zygna stating they went shutting us down..without thinking i gave my id to the game.ask what game we played and they would give us a package I said texas holdem, not thinking anything about it, so day or so later went texas holdem there i seen 15 million chips.wth..never asked for them, never knew i had a choice, now im in support group with the yovillians trying to save our game, our investment. I do not and will not leave yoville..zygna needs to sale out they are not to be trusted and better not close my account!!!!!! in yoville!!!! they shut don't texas holdem as far as I care.. they are no better there when hackers and bots steal our chips. you get called names at the table you click on the person to report you go live chat..they do nothing. tell you to leave that table go somewhere else..they zygna customer service no matter what game cares less for what you have to say..down with zygna!!!!!

12:12 am January 31, 2014

YoVille Player wrote:

I have spent thousands of my real money on Yoville and I assure you if you drop Yo or do not sell to Vikings I will never play another Zynga game again what has been done to so many players on Yo is so not fair and it is obvious that our feelings and money mean nothing to Zynga the game has not worked right in a long time and no one at Zynga seems to care what a shame and what a horrible way to run a business I do not think you are aware of how strongly the players feel about this SHAME ON YOU ZYNGA

12:21 am January 31, 2014

Yoville Player wrote:

Been Lied too last Year. Gave False Hope with New Theme In Game for Christmas. To keep getting my money you wait for after Christmas so everyone has time to turn in those game cards, Then You Drop the Bomb Closing Yoville. Spent thousands on this game. Even with nothing being fixed. No Customer Service. Empty Promises. The Constant assurance Yoville is here to STAY!! even In December. Then Happy New Year? Closing Shop March 31st!.. Close under these Condition's Boycotting all Zynga games and Products!

12:42 am January 31, 2014

YoVillian wrote:

Just about every game maker out there seems to have gambling. Who cares? YoVille players want our game. I started in April of 2013, fell in love with it. I didn't have to bother all my other facebook friends with requests to play, could be left alone if I didn't want to chat with people. Didn't lose too much if I missed logging in for a day or two. The message about events supposedly being resolved "We are working on it" I let slide, decided I'd wait to see if some issues of the game would be fixed. Halloween hack? I suffered through it with many other people. YoVille is a game where new players (I've introduced 4 and brought back 1) started buying yocash almost immediately. New Christmas stuff came out and we were all very hopeful that we'd start to see other changes. The message about shutting down YoVille was a blow out of nowhere to many of us. I believe you're putting all your eggs into one basket. Whatever happens to your company will be your burden to bear. I will be playing no more zynga games at all if YoVille isn't saved one way or the other.

12:46 am January 31, 2014

Dani A. wrote:

I'm disabled . I started playing this game in October of 2008 as a way to escape my prison of loneliness and hum drum life. Face Book was not what excited me Yoville did. The interaction with all of these people from all over the world was so special , so unique , it brightened my days. I too spent thousands and NOT because we ever had decent customer service , in fact it seem to get so much worse the last 2 years. We hung on for the love of our game . If I ever had money to invest in a company it would never be with these people , their customer service did not know anything about this game from the start nor tech support. I also was a VIP and we were NEVER asked for our input or thoughts on this game. The hackers ran this game better then the company ever did , knowing every glitch and exploiting it , I found myself becoming quite tech savvy learning how to block applications and people who stole things yet zynga " claimed " to have no idea of these goings ons.I will block all zynga games weather they sell yoville or not this company has stolen and lied its last dime out of me . My advice to future players with bitcoin ? If you can't trust them with currency you can see and touch like cash are you not afraid to spend bitcoin with them knowing their history of cheating their customers? Run and hold onto your wallets!!!

12:51 am January 31, 2014

Yoville Player wrote:

Please keep the game alive, Yoville was best game ever !!!

1:09 am January 31, 2014

Zynga's Client wrote:

Mattrick after the closure of Yoville ,we millions players who invested our money in that game,we will never dare to check on your future operations.Everywhere you work...As for zynga...you really messed up everything God gave you.You both ruined your carier...

6:04 am January 31, 2014

Disillusioned with Zynga wrote:

While i understand that Zynga needs to make profits, the way they treat their clients, those people who play their games, is shameful. The recent announcement that they are "sunsetting" (or killing) Yoville is a prime example of their deliberate misleading of their clients. We were assured Yoville was safe. Zynga had a brilliant game then ruined it by (including but not limited to) failing to maintain it, extremely poor or non existent customer services, and misleading information. Among many other things, they closed the events and blamed it on hackers, and they sabotaged the yo-economy with re-releases, even of some collectible items that were bought with the promise of never being re-released, I believe that, for whatever reason, Zynga wanted to close the game for a long time, and deliberately made it less and less fun in the hope that the player numbers would go down so they could close it down without a fuss. A lot of Yoville players stopped playing because of this, or stopped investing real money into the game, but this was caused by Zynga's attitude towards the game and its players, not the game itself. Yoville is a community, and we feel used and deceived. It is about time that Zynga learned that goodwill is a valuable asset, they have lost mine, and i am sure that of many other potential profit making customers

7:14 am January 31, 2014

Patty D. wrote:

I started playing Yoville in Nov. 2009, I was addicted by Dec. 2009 and have been ever since. I play Yoville every day. Zynga has no other game like Yoville!! You can't visit and chat with your friends in farmville, poker, etc. like you can in Yoville!! We Yovillians love our community. Over the last 5 years I have spent thousands of dollars on yocash to buy the items in the stores, I have spent thousands of hours decorating my homes & avenues. Zynga had shown us over the years that they don't really care about Yoville because if they did, they would have taken care of all the glitches we kept having and complaining about. Instead, they concentrated on their other games. If you delete Yoville, you will make NO money on the game, but if you would go on and sell the game to Big Viking Games (the ORIGINAL creators) you would make money & really isn't that what you all want!!!??? To you, Yoville is just a game, to us who play it it's more than that! There have been friendships made, marriages in real life after they met in Yoville. YOVILLE IS MORE THAN A GAME TO US!!! I used to rush home from work just to get my baked goods out of the oven for energy & coins. I would wake up 1 - 2 hours earlier in the morning just to play and send out gifts before going to work. If I had spent all the hours I've played Yoville on cleaning my house, yard, etc. I would have the cleanest house in the world. There have been times I would eat while at my computer and sometimes I would even skip eating so I could continue playing Yoville. I think you all are making a very big mistake in closing down Yoville, you will lose a lot of players by doing so, me for 1. When I read your announcement, I went in and deleted all the other Zynga games I used to play, I can not support Zynga by playing your games if I am not going to be able to play Yoville. Where else can you meet friends, give & get decorating tips, sit & chat about Yoville or anything else, get to really know your friends from all over the world without being able to really meet them. Yoville to a lot of people is an escape from their real life problems, we can all be looked at as the same - in Yoville we don't care about religion, sexual orientation, there's no hate crimes, no murders, no rapes, no muggings, no wars - it's a great place to be. If only our real life world could be like Yoville - could you imagine what a wonderful world we would have? So go on & sell it to BVG, someone who wants to keep Yoville alive for us!!! I don't understand how you can justify purchasing other games, bringing in a new CEO & paying him probably an ungodly amount of money and just want to toss Yoville aside like it's a pile of trash & not consider what you are doing to the people who play Yoville. You say Yoville players have gone down in numbers, maybe it has but Zynga only has themselves to blame for that. A lot of players got tired of all the issues, the glitches, the non-helpful customer service and so they went on to other games. If Zynga had kept maintaining Yoville, had given us customer service support that really cared, then your numbers would most likely still be way up there. The ones of us that have stuck through Yoville through thick & thin, through the glitches, are the true Yovillians and we are going to do our best to bring Zynga down along with your stocks dropping, as they have been. You just don't understand how we feel about our Yoville community, a lot of us cried in real life just thinking about our community being shut down. To think there will not be another place for us to escape to. JUST HAVE A CONSCIOUS, HAVE A HEART, SHOW YOU ARE HUMAN - SELL YOVILLE TO BIG VIKING GAMES SO WE CAN CONTINUE PLAYING!!! THAT'S ALL WE WANT - WE WANT TO KEEP OUR YOVILLE ALIVE!!!! We don't want our avatars to die, our animals to die. We've come along way, we've worked hard to get all the coins we have & to buy all the things we have. Look at the money you made off us by selling yocash, a lot of the items in the stores are yocash, all the cars & animals are yocash, most of the furniture are yocash, most of the houses are yocash and in order for any of us to get these items we had to purchase yocash with real life, hard earned money!!! So there I've said some of the things I wanted to say, although there is a lot more in my mind. Now I have to go into Yoville, take pictures of all my houses and rooms to put them in a folder just so I will always have them. You may shut down Yoville, but one thing you won't be able to shut down and take away from us are our memories of the game. DO THE RIGHT THING - CONTACT BVG & TELL THEM YOU WILL SELL!!! DO IT TODAY!!!

11:12 am January 31, 2014

T Miller wrote:

"Mattrick’s moves are the latest attempts to get Zynga back in shape after a rough couple of years filled with player losses, staff cuts and disappointing financial results." Since it's clear that Mattrick doesn't understand what caused the player losses and disappointing financial results (neglect), he will likely have an impossible time getting Zynga back in shape.

12:24 pm January 31, 2014

Zara wrote:

Hilarious! If he is not able to deal with a big scale company, he felt like reducing the size And cutting out the customers as well, like killing "YOVILLE" ZYNGA is synonym of pure management, lack of vision, pure creativity and client integrity, but tons of greed. Which won't be able to swallow at the end

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